The report makes clear that dam removal is not appropriate for all or even most of the nation's dams.
The report indicates that dam removal is often less costly than dam repair.
But that dam is sure to burst once financially strapped utilities start viewing their neighbors' customers as potential revenue sources.
He discovered that the dam not only threatened Nubian statues but that some 100, 000 Nubian people were being moved from their traditional homes.
It was during the Great Depression that we built the Hoover Dam that brought electricity to rural America.
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Perhaps attention might turn to those problems now that the dam has been breached?
Zenawi and his government stress that this dam project could potentially transform Ethiopia's economy.
Egypt and Sudan are particularly worried that this dam will allow Ethiopia to control the flow of water.
They wrote a letter to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, just warning him that this dam could collapse.
In September, officials warned that the dam is causing more frequent geological disasters.
One diplomat told Marketplace Africa that this dam will be "like an ATM of hard currency for Ethiopia".
It is true that opponents of the dam worry that it will endanger species of mammals and deplete fisheries, destroying local livelihoods.
They also say that the dam threatens the wetlands at the river's mouth, which are home to migratory birds and the rare shiomaneki crab.
The non-governmental organizations (NGOs), on the other hand, have not provided any real evidence that the dam is not going to be a national asset, as suggested by the government.
Not only does this threaten the whole of the Nile delta, once the breadbasket of the Roman world, it also means that the dam, like so many others, cannot last.
But that is a third of the area that the original dam would have inundated.
Rotherham Borough Council says the risk that the Ulley dam could be breached has "significantly reduced".
Relations between the countries have deteriorated over a hydro-electric dam that Tajikistan is building.
The Samarra bridge has a dam that generates power and regulates water levels on the Tigris River.
Mississippi officials were reportedly considering breaching a side of the dam that abuts a forested area in order to relieve pressure.
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But a low-head dam that delivered irrigation water also blocked fish movement.
In Nagano, Mr Tanaka won with the support of citizens' groups that opposed a dam the construction ministry wanted built against the wishes of local residents.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that if the dam were to break it could flood Kentwood with 17 feet of water in an hour and a half.
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That is what happens when a computer gets too hot, or is bombarded with certain kinds of radiation: the electrons pick up enough energy to breach the dam that has been carefully constructed to contain them.
Under the Ghandi style leadership of an extraordinary woman the people who live on the banks of the Narmada river in India have managed to halt the construction of a dam that threatens to destroy their way of life.
Nietzel says the most common place the clues about "where warm waters halt" first lead people is to Eagle Nest Lake, about 100 miles north of Santa Fe, because it has a dam that holds back warm water and is known for its brown trout.
Moreover, even if it does rain in the region, it would take two to three days for that water intake to be recorded at the dam, since it takes that much time for the water to travel to the turbines.
The man, named only as Mr Lee, works for a Chinese consortium that is building a dam in Kashmir.
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